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Today's topic: what's on your summer reading list? Whether you are going on vacation, sitting on the beach or just hanging out on your front porch, there's usually a good novel nearby. Any particular plans or will it be a more serendipitous approach?

I imagine that many of us have the new Harry Potter book on their list, even if they don't have a copy reserved or pre-purchased yet.

As for me, picking up a DVD of "The War of the Worlds" is giving me the desire to give Wells another go (I've never made it through any of his books). And while I'm at it, I going to try some Jules Verne.

Currently, I'm reading 3001: The Final Odyssey, a not-for-sale readers' proof edition that I won at a charity book raffle. (There are some other books in that pile waiting to be read. I just finished a 50th anniversary Peanuts collection.)

On the nonfiction front: I finished Mark Levin's book, Men in Black and I'' probably head for the library soon to reserve a few other conservative books.

I am reading nothing but Free Republic this summer. I just completed my first year of nursing school (last day today!!), and it seemed like I had my nose in a book 24/7. Everyone have a great summer. I'm off to Florida tonight for a week.

I read The Devil in the White City, too. I loved it. I thought the parts about the planning of the fair might be a little stale, but they were just facinating. The author paints such a vivid picture of what Chicago was like in those days.

The Crime Scene book is good so far. I just finished Practical Homicide Investigation for the third time. For a reference book it reads like a novel to me. The Interview book is a little stale for me. I've got a promotional exam coming up in November so it's study study study.

I never "got" Battle Cry of Freedom. I found it tedious, lacking in theme or analysis, and weighed down in irrelevant detail. Instead, I heartily recommend the 8-volume series by Allan Nevins, "The Ordeal of the Union/War of the Union."

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posted on 06/17/2005 11:00:41 AM PDT
by LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of news)

I just finished reading We Thought You'd Be Prettier and Autobiography of a Fat Bride, both by Laurie Natoro. She seems like she is probably a lib, but for the most part keeps her politics out of her books. Anyway, I was laughing so hard in parts I was crying.

Now back to reading 1776 and, of course, waiting eagerly for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

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